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Out of curiosity, did you happen to read Kurzweil's recent book on HHMMs?
I think the safest answer is that a HMM is just a specific way of mathematically writing down an updating Bayesian network.
No, never heard of it. I'm not an Utopian, and from what I know about Kurzweil's ideas and arguments, they don't seem to be sound enough.
Well, Kurzweil is an extremely accomplished inventor aside from being a pie-in-the-sky futurist, so when he says something about a particular algorithm working well, I assume he knows what he's talking about. He seems to think hidden hierarchical Markov models are the best way to represent the hierarchical nature of abstract thought.
I'm not saying he's correct, just saying, it seems to be a popular idea.